Adjustable carriage-seat



J. A. NAYLOR.

Carriage-Seat. I No 28.892 Patented June 26, 1860 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. NAYLOR, OF RAl-IWAY, NEW JERSEY.

ADJUSTABLE CARRIAGE-SEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 28,892, dated June 26, 1860.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. NAYLOR, of the city of Rahway, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful improvement in folding carriage-seats, which I call Naylors improved folding and concealed carriage-seat, of which the following is a full and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings.

The nature of my invention consists in making an additional seat to a carriage and arranging it in such a manner that when it is not needed for use it may be folded up and shoved back under the permanent seat of the carriage and also in such a way that when in use (unlike all such seats which have heretofore been cont-rived) it may be elevated above the seat to which it is attached to any height which may be required for ordinary use.

In the annexed drawings Figure 1 is a front view; Fig. 2 an end view and Fig. 3 a perspective view of my improved seat. Fig. 3 shows an ordinary carriage body, having two seats.

The same letters refer to the same parts in all the figures.

A, Figs. 2 and 3 shows the ordinary front seat of the carriage.

B, Fig. 3, shows the supplemental seat when in use and B, Fig. 2, shows it when folded up and shoved back under the permanent seat.

The seat and its appendages are constructed and arranged as follows: On each side of the vacant space under the permanent seat A a groove is made which is shown at I, I, Fig. 2. In these grooves on either side rests the two ends of a rod which may slide back and forward in said grooves. The rod is shown in Fig. 1; it is marked N and in F 2 marked on its end by the same letter. Attached to this rod near its ends are two bars, C, C, which branch near their top into two parts to insure stifiness. At D D these bars are jointed with joints similar to those used on carriage tops. The upper parts of these joints are attached to the seat as shown in Fig. 8 and the oints are so arranged that when the seat B attains a horizontal position the joints will stop, while the ends of the bar N will have attained their limit of forward motion and the lower parts of the bars will be pressed hard against the front of the permanent seat. If new the supporting legs F which are hinged at 0 be turned down so as to rest against the bottom of the carriage the seat will be firmly held and supported in its position to be used. The usual sides of the seat shown at L are hinged at T with joints similar to those already described so that when they are in use they stand perpendicular and resist outward pressure but may be turned down flat when the seat is to be folded up and put under the permanent seat.

l/Vhen the seat is not required it is folded up and disposed of as follows: The legs F are first turned up against the under side of the seat B by means of the joints, 0, O. The seat is then turned down against the bars, 0, C, by means of the joints D., D, The top is then turned down forward until the whole has attained a horizontal position and then it is shoved back under the permanent seat A until again wanted for use. By means of this arrangement no part of the seat need be detached from the vehicle. Even the cushions may be permanently attached to the seat and folded up and put away with it.

I am aware that a supplemental seat has heretofore been made and used which was hinged to the front of the permanent seat and allowed to hang down in front of it when not in use and I am also aware that a patent has lately been issued to one Frank Flowers for a seat which folded back on the top of the permanent seat when not in use; therefore I do not claim any feature of my improved seat which is common to those spoken of; but

I claim- The jointed and branched bars, C, C, and the rod N in combination with the slots or slides, I, and the seats A and B when constructed substantially in the manner hereinbefore described.

JOHN A. NAYLOR.

Witnesses:

PATRICK CLARK, JOHN A. CAMPBELL. 

